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   by mgdev 4y ago

   Came to say this. When life imitates art.
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   by mgdev 4y ago

   So many critics here. "It's paid!" "It's not multi-platform!" "It doesn't support my language!" Dear Zas Editor creator: Good on you for creating something that solves your problems and challenge
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   by mgdev 4y ago

   Aaron makes an appearance in the 2005 documentary "Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks", which was a documentary about interns building a product at at FogBugz (by Joel Spolsky, now known for Trello and Stack Overflow). I watched
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   Where do you think most devs work? Also, +1 to Oracle! (disclaimer: former OCI dev)
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   Can the optics be used in reverse, as a short-range projector? Very interesting AR applications if so...
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   I don't follow. Why? If there's no income earned, why should someone pay rent on deposits in a bank account?
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   Facebook is net-zero emissions.
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   The deeper in your stack you fix the consistency problem, the simpler the rest of your system needs to be. If you use S3 as a canonical store for some use case, that's pretty deep in the stack. > Thus, once you've built a distr
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   by mgdev 5y ago

   They've basically bolted on causal consistency. It's a great change.
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    by mgdev 5y ago

    The key is: who is allowed to see the segment ID? In Apple's world, Apple owns the supply side ad surfaces, Apple maintains the segmentation and mapping, and Apple mediates the demand side. What does an advertiser see? Pretty much noth
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    Oracle Cloud DNS is Dyn DNS. Same product/stack. In fact, private DNS is also powered by Dyn tech.
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    Except it's not far-fetched at all [1]. If you optimize for conversions, and the value of those conversions is large enough, the returns readily cover the costs. [1]: https://zapier.com/apps/facebook-conversions&#x2
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    Speaking for myself, not the co: we all decide who we want to trust and why, whether it’s browser extension, or a browser, or a phone. For me, it comes down to alignment and value. Amazon stands to lose a lot if they decided to suddenly sto
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    I designed this. I won't speak to any past or current practices, but I will say this: Amazon is obsessive about protecting customer privacy.
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    I believe the sharing only applies when talking to those third parties. E.g., if you only ever talk to friends and family, there is effectively no change.
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    I know you. :) #doppler4lyfe
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    Buildionaires.
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    I thought Bloomberg was into Bucklescript/ReasonML. Warring factions?!
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    > this requires nonfree Javascript So... I get the motivation for including this, and I understand Emacs's roots. But IMO this mindset — the one that motivated including this disclaimer - is also why efforts to "modernize"
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    "GraalVM Community editions are based on OpenJDK version 1.8.262 and on OpenJDK version 11.0.8." https://www.graalvm.org/docs/getting-started-with-graalvm/
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    Tips for Passing the (Broken) Tech Interview(mg.dev)

    2 points by mgdev 6y ago|0 comments
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    I'd love to see sales stats shared for this. Would be a great case study for 1-person digital product sales.
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    by mgdev 6y ago

    Oracle used Lisp [1] in the UIs for their gen-2 cloud product. They eventually hit a wall hiring the kinds of people Oracle wanted to hire (few of whom wanted to learn an esoteric language), and made the tragic decision to move new developm